Flyover Country

About a week-and-a-half ago, I took it upon myself to redesign my website. I had grown bored with the faux-magazine cover style that permeated the site (and still permeates this blog). Furthermore, the reluctance of Menalto’s Gallery 2 product to provide a decent user experience was wearing heavily upon my soul. So, I decided to [...]

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I seem to have an action-packed Fall lined up for concerts and shows. Over the next couple months I’m going to see:

Arcade Fire with LCD Soundsystem - September 24
Interpol - October 18
Spamalot - sometime in October
Decemberists - Dec 8

I’m excited, to be sure.

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It looks like I’ll be flying out to Boston for the Remix Boston event on October 8 and 9. I will, of course, be there to talk with everyone about Popfly. I look forward to seeing everyone out there. Mix 07 was a blast, and I’m sure Remix Boston will be nothing less. I can’t [...]

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One thing I’ve got to give Sony is that they almost always know their stuff when it comes to innovative hardware design. Sure, the occasional high ticket item may look more like a George Foreman grill than the harbinger of high definition gaming, but who wouldn’t want to enjoy a tasty, low-fat steak while saving [...]

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It’s another month, which means it’s time for another Popfly update! I have to say, shipping every month or so is a blast. Getting new bits into our users’ hands this often is a fantastic feeling, but it only works if you give us feedback on what you love and hate, so keep it coming! [...]

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I just installed a Lightbox plugin for WordPress, and I wanted to see how well it works before doing more “real” stuff with it (whatever that means). My girlfriend, Helen, and I wandered over to Discovery Park, a beautiful park on the western edge of Seattle, on Labor Day. We spent a few hours walking [...]

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I noticed on Techmeme yesterday that Popfly received a great writeup in the New York Times as part of a broader article in Circuits about mashups. Here’s a quote from the article:
Now mash-ups are poised to hit the mainstream, and to spread well beyond music. Yahoo, I.B.M., Microsoft and others are creating systems to let [...]

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